Shirley

[ shur-lee ]

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noun

James, 1596–1666, English dramatist.
William, 1694–1771, English governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1741–56: urged assault on Louisburg.
a city on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
a male or female given name: a family name taken from an Old English placename.

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Six people who were in the two other vehicles were injured, one seriously, in the incident in Wickham Road, Croydon, close to the junction with Shirley Road, shortly before 21:00 BST, the Met Police said.

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Six minutes later, the car crashed into two cars in Wickham Road, Croydon close to the junction with Shirley Road, police added.

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"Sending you love," wrote Garbage singer Shirley Manson.

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California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, the state’s top elections official, called Trump’s order “an illegal attempt to trample on the states and Congress’s constitutional authority over elections.”

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The festival will include live-action shorts, a new program of animated shorts and artist talks including novelist-filmmaker Dennis Cooper in conversation with author Tony Tulathimutte, and another with costume designer Shirley Kurata and comedian John Early.

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